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  2. Downtown (Petula Clark song) - Wikipedia

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    "Downtown" is a song written and produced by English composer Tony Hatch. Its lyrics speak of going to spend time in an urban downtown as a means of escape from everyday life. The 1964 version recorded by British singer Petula Clark became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart.

  3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    A chord is several notes sounded simultaneously. Two-note chords are called dyads, three-note chords built by using the interval of a third are called triads. Arpeggiated chord A chord with notes played in rapid succession, usually ascending, each note being sustained as the others are played. It is also called a broken chord, a rolled chord ...

  4. Locked hands style - Wikipedia

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    The locked hands technique requires the pianist to play the melody using both hands in unison. The right hand plays a 4-note chord inversion in which the melody note is the highest note in the voicing. The other 3 notes of the chord are voiced as closely as possible below the melody note, which is the definition of a block chord. [1]

  5. Music of Rwanda - Wikipedia

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    The music industry in Rwanda is gradually growing and becoming more professionalized. An increasing number of companies are investing in the development of new talent, including the production of major music festivals like Kigali Up! and Primus Guma Guma Super Star, and the music competition television show .artists like Meddy, are now taking Rwandan music to the next level

  6. Tone cluster - Wikipedia

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    The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34696-7. Hitchcock, H. Wiley (2004). Liner notes to Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 'Concord' (Naxos 8.559221). Hogan, Patrick Colm (2003). Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists. New York and London ...

  7. Mrs. Miller - Wikipedia

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    Elva Ruby Miller (October 5, 1907 – July 5, 1997), who recorded under the name Mrs. Miller, was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her series of shrill and off-tempo renditions of popular songs such as "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto" and "Downtown".

  8. Barre chord - Wikipedia

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    Keys that don't have many open notes in standard tuning (hence few or no open chord fingerings) require many barre chords. The two most commonly barred notes are variations on the fingering shapes of A and E in first (open) position. The E-type barre chord is an E chord shape (022100) barred up and down the frets, transposing the chord.

  9. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    Conventionally, guitarists double notes in a chord to increase its volume, an important technique for players without amplification; doubling notes and changing the order of notes also changes the timbre of chords. It can make possible a "chord" which is composed of the all same note on different strings.